Passing the Bar Game

Caryn Pincus

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Did you ever hear the one about the lawyer who was so tired of studying for the bar exam that she invented a board game to make it more fun?

It's no joke. Caryn Pincus, who passed the Florida bar exam in 2008, created this game as an engaging way to study law and legal reasoning. Using questions modeled after the multi-state portion of the bar exam, this game makes a great supplement for law students, or an entertaining review for legal professionals.

Audrey was hosting a board game convention when one of the inventors ran up to her, out of breath, and said, "Oh my god, you will never believe what just happened! I was walking down the trivia boardgame aisle when Simon ran up to me with blood all over his shirt. He said, 'I just killed the inventor of '80s trivia. I hated the era and he was mocking my boardgame.' He then ran out of the convention center." The prosecution puts Audrey on the stand to testify as to Simon's statement. Simon's attorney objects. What is the result?

Caryn Pincus is an Attorney at Law, licensed to practice
in the states of New York, New Jersey and Florida. She graduated cum laude, in
2006. She received the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Contracts II and
Disability Law. She also interned at the New York Appellate Division, First
Department, the Suffolk County Attorney's Office and Nassau-Suffolk Law
Services. She started her career at a matrimonial and criminal law firm and
subsequently worked as a commercial litigation attorney.

She came up with the idea of Passing the Bar Game after leaving the New York bar exam and heading to the New Jersey bar exam. "I thought of other
ways that I could have studied for the bar exam with my friends, aside from
drinking and reading questions out of a prep book," Caryn said.

It really clicked with her that certain types of questions are asked over and over again in the same format. For example, every time you answer a Constitutional Law question, the student should always start by asking the question, "Who is acting?" The
answer on the bar will always be: a private person, Congress, the President,
etc.

When she created the game, Caryn tried to use the most common types of questions and added in tips. She also added fun trivia questions so that students can take a mental break
from studying meanwhile they play.

Made from

100% recycled paper label stock,
cardboard

Measurements

10.5" L x 10.5" W x 3.5" H

Ingredients

Notes

2-10 players. For adults.

Item ID

18853

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Nice looking, lots of good questions but not for people w/o legal training. You find yourself guessing among choices that are hard to distinguish from each other. As an older adult I was interested, but my law student even got tired of it and my other daughter, an Ivy league studnet gave up on it.

I think a group of law students would like the game and benefit from it.

I bought it for my boyfriend who's about to finish up his second year of law school, thinking that this would help him study for finals. He said it was VERY challenging, but fun to play with his law school buddies and realize how much they don't know yet.